Again, in that videotape-fight, it almost looked like Sawamura killed his opponent with his gruesome cheating-attack. He never did anything like that during his fight with Ippo. The most brutal thing he did was the elbow into Ippoīs back, but that didnīt really feel that impactful. Really, from how things had been hyped up, I expected Sawamura to go all-out-Mike-Tyson on Ippo. Instead, he gave us some real superb boxing with his bullet-fast, yet also strong punches and his pinpoint-accurate counter-style. Ippo didnīt struggle because of any tricks, he struggled because of the honest-to-god boxing skills of his opponent.